Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
ROY LICHTENSTEINUsually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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